Peter Grant?

Sammy Lee? Stuart Pearce? Tony Cottee? Carlton Palmer? Tony Adams? Chris Waddle? John Barnes?

In no other industry does someone get chucked straight into the top job simply because they excelled at a totally different job, ie. playing. Far and away the best route to success is by working your way up: something Fergie, Mourinho, Wenger and Benitez have all done, for example. Of course, occasionally someone gets it right - Keane at Sunderland, as you say - but even there, his sheer force of personality made him an exceptional case, and he had loads of money available; which Dublin certainly wouldn't here.

Keep Dion on as player-coach, maybe groom him for the manager's job (if he wants it) at a later point - but appoint a complete novice when we have no money and are in more danger of relegation to the third flight than at any time since 1960? Bonkers.

Posted By: thebigfeller on October 26th 2007 at 23:25:33

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Board poll: out of the following four candidates, who would you prefer as NCFC manager? (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Oct 26, 22:19:14
- Neil Warnock (n/m) (NCFC) - NCFC4life, Oct 27, 12:23:02
- Simon Grayson (n/m) (NCFC) - BINMEN8R, Oct 27, 11:46:16
- None of the above. Dion for me (NCFC) - Bohemian, Oct 26, 23:06:22
  - And that has, er, what relevance to a man with no prior experience at all (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Oct 26, 23:15:24
    - But complete novices have a good track record (NCFC) - Chunter, Oct 26, 23:17:44
      - Peter Grant? (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Oct 26, 23:25:33
        
        Agreed but.... (NCFC) - Chunter, Oct 26, 23:33:24
        
        You make an excellent case, Sir (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Oct 26, 23:38:35
- Where's Paul Jewell in that list? (NCFC) - Chunter, Oct 26, 23:06:09
  - We'll beat Ipswich (NCFC) - thebigfeller, Oct 26, 23:10:16
    - Hope your right big man (NCFC) - Chunter, Oct 26, 23:16:07
- All very similar really (NCFC) - lovely old job, Oct 26, 22:42:40
- Honestly, I dont know enough about any of them... (NCFC) - Yellalee, Oct 26, 22:34:12
- tilson (NCFC) - Disshater, Oct 26, 22:34:05
- Tilson (n/m) (NCFC) - conker, Oct 26, 22:29:35
- Tilson (NCFC) - KentonCanary, Oct 26, 22:25:12
- Steve Tillson (n/m) (NCFC) - Darren Eadie, Oct 26, 22:23:19
- Steve Ignorant (NCFC) - lovely old job, Oct 26, 22:22:34

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